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Letter: We can’t trust those bent upon our destruction

As best can be surmised from the writings in the Hadith and Sira, the Islamic chronicles of the Muhammad’s life, the prophet, persecuted in Mecca moved his followers 300 miles north to Medina, where the Muslim community became a political entity central to Islam. From this base he began raids on the Meccan caravans which started a war lasting 10 years until Mecca fell to the Muslims. Critics of Islam were put to death, and wars were waged in Allah’s name against Jews and Christians. When the Jews of Qurayza surrendered they were confined to Medina, where the apostle had trenches dug in the market, and struck off the heads of between 600-700 men or more, while dividing up the property, women, and children among his men and taking a fifth of the spoils for himself. Women and prepubescent girls were used for slaves and sex. Muhammad himself took a 9-year-old wife, because of a dream which convinced him it was God’s will.

After the fall of Mecca, Muhammad received Surah 9:29 which says, Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgement of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. In other words, fight non- Muslims until they submit to Islam. In further verses the words of the Quran urges followers to kill all who reject Allah in Jihad, a religious duty, a test which those who kill pass.

Radical Islam is about establishing a caliphate, which is an Islamist state led by a caliph, a political and religious leader, and a successor to the prophet, with absolute power and authority. The violent verses of the Quran have played a key role in massacres and genocide, and the slaughter of millions of Hindus for five centuries.

Islam never gives up what it conquers, does not tolerate, openly practices every standard by which the West is condemned, including slavery, imperialism, intolerance, misogyny, sexual repression and warfare, and is given weight by the Quran’s divine command.

How then do you trust a theocracy bent on your destruction and determined to take over the world?

The Syrian refugee crisis poses a threat to any country since ISIS has already used the event to smuggle radicals into other nations with terrible prophesized results. Wednesday a clearly radical terrorist of the Islamic faith began and ended his Jihad in San Bernardino. How many more will we allow?

LANCE KEY

Graham

http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20151206/OPINION/151209388

ISLAM IS NEVER A RELIGION OF PEACE

Sir,

I want to react quite sharply to the newspaper article titledd:  ‘WE COME IN PEACE – SIET’ published by the Times of Swaziland, dated November 24, 2015 – Page 7. In the article, the Swaziland Islamic Education Trust (SIET), through their mouthpiece, a certain Mr Saeed Matsebula, sought to dispel fears with regard to Islam being seen by many as a religion of war, strife, anger and rampant violence throughout the world.
In the article, SIET unequivocally denied that Islam is really a religion of war and violence. According to them, Islam is a religion of peace and good neighbourliness. This is not true.
Islam not only condones violence; it commands it. A tree is known by its fruit. The fruit of Islam is 1 400 years of violence and bloodshed around the world.

The Quran teaches: “Fight and slay the Pagans wherever you find them and seize them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)” – SURAH 9:5. SURAH 5:33 also says, “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, strive with might and main for the mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet, or exile from the land: that is the disgrace in this world and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter”.
I do not have time to enumerate the uncountable episodes of violence that have been staged by Islamic extremists throughout the world, in the name of obeying their god, whom they call Allah. The highest honour in Islam is to die a martyr killing Christians and Jews whom they call infidels. The one who does this awakes in an Islamic heaven surrounded by 70 virgins.
Muhammad the founder of Islam, who was a polygamist with thirteen wives, slaughtered thousands of people in establishing Islam and spreading Islam.
He told his followers: “He who relinquishes his faith, kill him. I have been ordered by Allah to fight with people till they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger.”
Muhammad’s life can be divided into two parts: the years of tolerance in Mecca and the years of aggression in Medina.
The Quran is basically about those two parts, which is why at times the Quran seems to indicate that Islam teaches its followers to live at peace with their enemies. When Muhammad began to preach his religion to the people, he believed that a peaceful religion was a good scheme for attracting people to the teachings of Islam. When he realised that his attempts to win people to his religion by peaceful means were unsuccessful, he then resorted to violence and jihad (holy war), winning people to his religion by the sword.
This is what is happening today in the Republic of Nigeria, where Islamic fanatics dubbed ‘Boko Haram’ are recruiting people to Islam by waging an unending war, abducting innocent girls into forests where they are not only raped and shamefully reduced to zero, but are forcefully kept there, so as to be indoctrinated with the teachings of Islam.
The god of Islam is totally different from the God we know. They call their god ‘Allah’. The name Allah came from an Arabic word that had to do with the worship of the moon god in pre-Islamic Arabia. In Islam, Allah is unknowable. He is so exalted that no man can ever personally know him. The Quran tells us that the god of Islam works with Satan and demons to lead people astray in order to populate hell which he created (Surah 6:39, 126; 32:13; 43:36-37).
The basic teaching of the Quran, which is  being distributed free of charge in the country, is that Allah told Muhammad to kill and maim anyone who did not believe in Allah or in Muhammad his prophet. Islam follows a theology of triumphalism – the dominance of one’s nation, ideology or religious creed over another. To a Muslim, it is Allah’s will for Islam to rule the world.
This word ‘Islam’ does not mean peace. It means submission. Their key objective is for everyone to submit to them. That is why the Islamic prayer tower is the highest point in every city. It must have a position of physical supremacy.
In conclusion, I wish to state that we are very blessed as a country in that God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, appeared in a vision to our King Somhlolo and showed him two things: money and the Bible. God advised our king that as a nation we should choose the Bible and only the Bible not the Quran or whatsoever.
Swaziland, because of her sheer vulnerability, which is stemming from the fact that she is a ‘poor’ country and as such she is finding herself in a position of being a professional beggar, now finds herself in a very difficult position: either to obey the God of Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, or trade that belief with following Islam because the owners of Islam are the Haves (they own oil) and we are the Have-nots.
They come in peace, ‘yes’, but it is only for a short season. They are still establishing themselves. Once that is over, Swaziland will realise that peace and Islam are two things that are mutually exclusive. And at that time, it will be very late to make any reversal. It will only be a hopeless situation like what is happening in Nigeria and Somali, to mention a few countries.
It is so difficult for them to deal decisively with Boko Haram and Al Shabaab, organisations which began as peaceful entities under the banner of Islam but are now a cancer, not only to these countries but to the world as a whole.
Show me a peaceful member of Islam then I will show you a hypocrite of Islam.

Zanethemba Nxumalo
Mbabane

http://www.times.co.sz/letters/105734-islam-is-never-a-religion-of-peace.html

ISIS: From Where Does its Evil Flow? by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)

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Islam a religion of violence: Danish study says

Islam a religion of violence; Quran directly incites terror, killing people of other faiths, Danish study says

Although Muslims and even some Christians call Islam a religion of peace, a new study by a Danish expert concluded that Islam, in fact, is a violent faith.

The study was reported by Jihad Watch, a group that records the killings done in the name of Islam, and WND.

Danish linguist Tina Magaard led a team of researchers who for three years studied the texts of the holy books of the world’s 10 biggest religions, the Jihad Watch report said.

“The conclusion was clear: ‘The texts of Islam [are] clearly distinct from the other religions’ texts as [they include] a higher degree call for violence and aggression against followers of other faiths.’

“There are also direct incitement[s] to terror … Moreover, in the Quran [there are] hundreds of invitations to fight against people of other faiths,” the report said.

Magaard, who holds a Ph.D. in text analysis and intercultural communication from the Sorbonne in Paris, said “it is indisputable that the texts [of Islam] encourage violence and terror.”

For instance, the study noted a verse in Quran 47:4, which states, “So when you meet those who disbelieve, strike their necks until you have inflicted slaughter upon them.”

“The fact that Islam is the world’s most violent religion is most likely the reason why Muslims since September 11, 2011, [have] committed more than 27,000 deadly terrorist attacks in the name of Islam. This corresponds to approximately 2,000 a year or five a day,” Jihad Watch pointed out.

Jihad Watch also noted that 80 percent of young Turks in the Netherlands “see ‘nothing wrong’ in waging jihad against non-Muslims.”

What is even more worrisome, according to the report, is that “the number of Muslims in the Western world is increasing dramatically and that they are becoming still more religious.”

It said “75 percent of Muslims inside Europe think that the texts of the world’s most violent religion must be taken literal.”

The Danish research also cited another study on 45,000 teenagers which concluded that “boys growing up in religious Muslim families are more likely to be violent.”

The author of that study, Christian Pfeiffer, from a criminal research institute in Lower Saxony, Germany, said even when other social factors are taken into account, there remained a significant correlation between “religiosity and readiness to use violence.”

As to be expected, the Jihad Watch report immediately drew a negative backlash from supporters of Islam.

Imam Abdul Wahid Peteresen, of Copenhagen, said the research inappropriately took quotes out of context. He asked: If Islam truly advocates violence against non-Muslims, why has Islam not “eradicated all other faiths in the communities where Muslims are in the majority?”

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/islam.a.religion.of.violence.quran.directly.incites.terror.killing.people.of.other.faiths.danish.study.says/72088.htm

Islam is worse than Christianity: -James Kirk Wall

When Christianity is criticized and ridiculed, no one mentions anything about Islam. When Islam is criticized and ridiculed, people scream, “What about Christianity? Radical Muslims are just doing what Christians did 400 years ago!” While it’s true that 2015 Saudi Arabia does bare striking resemblance to 1692 Salem Massachusetts, how is that supposed to be a shield against Islamic criticism?

The truth is that today Islam is far worse than Christianity, especially for free thinkers. It represents the greatest obstacle and threat to free speech, equality for women, individual liberty, and human rights in general than any other belief system. There’s nothing “moderate” about millions of Muslims believing that people should be killed for adultery, homosexuality, or leaving Islam. The number of people who believe this should be zero.

There is commonality between Christianity and Islam. Both stem from the Torah, the five books of Moses, which is part of the Old Testament. A despicable book of perpetual ignorance and violence that condones both slavery and murder. The Old Testament represents the same god as Jesus and the Prophet Mohammad.

Many compare the number of violent passages in the Bible with the Quran and say, “Look! The Bible has more!” That’s like comparing the Old Testament with the New and saying, “Look! The Old Testament has more!” But the Quran, like the New Testament, is not in competition with the Old, it’s meant as an extension of the Bible. This means that the horrible passages in the Quran are to be accumulated with what’s in the Bible. It’s not less hatred and violence, it’s more.

What makes the Quran arguably worse? A woman’s testimony in court is worth half a man’s.

Quran 2.282 “let his guardian dictate with fairness; and call in to witness from among your men two witnesses; but if there are not two men, then one man and two women from among those whom you choose to be witnesses, so that if one of the two errs, the second of the two may remind the other.”

According to this passage, women are stupid and can’t be trusted. Get two male witnesses. But if you can only get one, there needs to be two women to equal one man. In other words, in legal proceedings a woman’s word is worth half a man’s. And why two women? Because if one screws up, the other can help her. Does the same consideration apply to a man? No.

When it comes to hatred for non-believers, the Quran is a constant drum beat. Not even two pages into it and there’s already a threat of violence.

Quran 2:23. And if you are in doubt as to that which We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like it and call on your witness besides Allah if you are truthful. 2:24. But if you do (it) not and never shall you do (it), then be on your guard against the fire of which men and stones are the fuel; it is prepared for the unbelievers.

And why are there non-believers?

Quran 2:6. Surely those who disbelieve, it being alike to them whether you warn them, or do not warn them, will not believe.
2:7. Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing and there is a covering over their eyes, and there is a great punishment for them.

So for those who don’t believe, rather than intervening to convince them, the all-powerful Allah sets a seal upon their hearts, hearing and eyes, and there is great punishment for them. So as it turns out, the great creator of the universe is a sadistic schmuck who intentionally makes people not believe in him so that he can torture them later.

One of the greatest reasons that Christianity is arguably better than Islam is that Jesus didn’t have a thing for under-aged kids. The so called Prophet Muhammad as an old man had sex with a 9 year old girl named Aisha. But apparently that’s not creepy enough to keep away a billion followers, just as Joseph Smith being a pedophile isn’t a deal breaker for the Mormons.

The truth is that the world would be better off without Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But instead we have hordes of blind followers unable to rise above their childhood indoctrination, shameless idiots shouting out “Judeo-Christian values!” while having no idea what that even means, and shameless apologists claiming that the horrid crap that infests the Quran doesn’t matter because, hey, look at these Buddhists that were killers, and hey, that mostly Muslim country Indonesia is such a tribute to freedom and equality (it’s not.)

So how can we drastically reduce the extremism which infests Islam far more than Christianity in modern times? The reason that Christians are able to act peaceful and civilized is due to knowledge of secular philosophy and ignorance of their own religious text. What turned Christians around is what we refer to as the Renaissance, a rebirth of ancient philosophy that promoted human values and ideas. The world needs Islam to have its’ Renaissance, and there’s an abundance of ancient Islamic philosophers to provide the kindle.

This isn’t to say that there isn’t any noble philosophy in the Bible or the Quran, but it’s intermingled with madness. Replace the madness with the greatest reasoning of mankind throughout the ages, and now you have something worth believing in.

“We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself” – Al-Kindi

-James Kirk Wall

article is taken from the link below:

http://www.chicagonow.com/an-agnostic-in-wheaton/2015/11/islam-is-worse-than-christianity/

“सत्यार्थ प्रकाश : समीक्षा की समीक्षा का जवाब PART 12”

इस्लाम, नारी और महिला विकास का अवरोधक बुरका

“ग्यारहवे अध्याय का जवाब पार्ट 1 ”

सत्यार्थ प्रकाश समीक्षा की समीक्षा पुस्तक में सतीशचंद गुप्ता जी एक अध्याय प्रस्तुत करते हैं “क्या पर्दा नारी के हित में नहीं है ?” अपनी परदे वाली थियोरी को जायज़ (वैध) सिद्ध करने के चक्कर में लेखक इतने मशगूल हुए की बिना सिद्धांतो के ही कुतर्क और मिथ्याभाषण करते हुए, वर्तमान युग में भारतीय नारी का उद्धार करने वाले ऋषि दयानंद को इस्लाम और मुसलमानो का कटुआलोचकर बना दिया। क्या ये समाज को सच्चाई दिखाने की जगह खुद ही सच्चाई पर पर्दा डालने वाली बात न हुई ? लेखक को चाहिए था की नारी की मनोस्थति को समझते हुए उसकी भावनाओ का सम्मान करते, मगर इस्लामी धारणा से ओतप्रोत हुए लेखक ने सच को नकारते हुए, विशुद्ध रूप से मजहबी कट्टरता का परिचय देकर सम्पूर्ण नारी जाती का अपमान कर दिया। क्या ये आक्षेपकर्ता का मानसिक दिवालियापन नहीं है ?

देखिये, पर्दा प्रथा न तो भारतीय संस्कार हैं, न ही ये शब्द ही भारतीय हिंदी भाषा से सम्बंधित है, “पर्दा” शब्द स्वयं विदेशी है जो फ़ारसी भाषा से है, संपादक “डॉ सैयद असद अली” प्रकाशक राजपाल इन संस, दिल्ली से प्रकाशित “व्यवहारिक उर्दू हिंदी शब्दकोष” पृष्ठ संख्या १८८ में शब्द “पसेपर्दा” आता है, जो “फ़ारसी पुल्लिंग” शब्द है। जिसका अर्थ है आड़ में। तो ये बात तो क्लियर है की पर्दा शब्द खुद में ही विदेशी शब्द है, तो इसका मूल भी भारतीय नहीं हो सकता, वैदिक संस्कृति में नारी को सम्मान का सूचक “देवी” कहा गया है, जो कभी भी छुपाने की वस्तु वाले नजरिये से नहीं देखि गयी। क्योंकि “औरत” शब्द अरबी है जो अरबी धातु औराह या आईन-वाव-रा (ayn-waw-ra) से जिसका मतलब है कानापन या एक आंख से देखना से बना है। सीधा सीधा अर्थ है, शायद अरब के लोग नारी को केवल भोग की वस्तु या शारीरिक सम्बन्ध बनाने वाली नजर से ही देखते थे, जिस कारण नारी को “औरत” शब्द यानी छुपाने वाली बना दिया ताकि ऐसी दुष्ट और काम वास्नामयी नजरो से बचा सके।

जबकि भारतीय पद्धति में महिला को देवी का दर्जा प्राप्त है, जिससे ज्ञात होता है की भारतीय परंपरा और संस्कार नारियो के प्रति कितने उदारशील और संस्कारी थे। अब जो बात है पर्दा की तो किसी भी वैदिक साहित्य में महिला को छुपाने या पर्दा करने का विवरण प्राप्त नहीं होता देखिये :

निरुक्त में पर्दा प्रथा का विवरण कहीं मौजूद नहीं।

निरुक्तानुसार संपत्ति संबंधी मामले निपटाने के लिए न्यायालयों में स्त्रियों के आने जाने के लिए कहीं पर्दा व्यवस्था का विवरण नहीं, बल्कि अधिकार है।

रामायण और महाभारत काल में भी महिलाओ की पर्दा प्रथा नहीं पायी जाती, इसके उल्ट रावण की बहन जब श्री राम और लक्ष्मण के सामने आई तब भी कोई पर्दा न था, जब रावण माता सीता को ले जाकर, अशोक वाटिका में रखा वहा भी कोई पर्दा व्यवस्था नहीं थी। रामायण और महाभारत कालीन इतिहास में स्वयंवर होते थे, तब भी पर्दा व्यवस्था का कोई उल्लेख प्राप्त नहीं होता।

इन सब तथ्यों से ज्ञात हो जाता है की आर्य सभ्यता में पर्दा व्यवस्था थी ही नहीं, क्योंकि आर्य जाति सदैव सदाचारी और संयमी रही है, अतः पुरुषो को अपनी इन्द्रियों को वश में करना ही सदाचार है, महिलाओ को ढक कर, छिपा कर पुरुष इन्द्रियों को वश में नहीं कर सकता, खैर ये ढकने और छिपाने जैसी प्रथा से पुरुष की इन्द्रिय संयम में रहती हैं और पुरुष सदाचार की शिक्षा प्राप्त करता है, इतना विज्ञानं अरबी सभ्यता में ही था।

अब हम आपको वेद से प्रमाण दिखाते हैं, देखिये :

सुमंगलीरियं वधुरिमा समेत पश्यत
सौभाग्यमस्यै दत्वायाथास्तं वि परेतन

ऋग्वेद (10.85.33)

हे विवाह में उपस्थित भद्र स्त्री पुरुषो ! यह वधु शुभा और सौभाग्यशालिनी है। आप लोग आइये, देखिये और इसे सौभाग्य का आशीर्वाद देकर अनन्तर अपने अपने घरो को जाइए।

यहाँ स्पष्ट है की पर्दा प्रथा का कोई औचित्य भारतीय संस्कृति में महिलाओ के लिए निर्धारित नहीं किया गया। बल्कि आश्वलायनगृह्यसूत्र (1/8/7) के अनुसार वधु को अपने घर ले आते समय वर को चाहिए कि वह प्रत्येक निवेश स्थान (रुकने के स्थान) पर दर्शकों को ऋग्वेद के उपर्युक्त मंत्र के साथ दिखाए। इससे स्पष्ट है कि वैदिक सभ्यता (भारतीय संस्कृति) में वधुओं द्वारा अवगुण्ठन (पर्दा) नहीं धारण किया जाता था, प्रत्युत वे सबके सामने निरावगुण्ठन आती थी। पर्दा प्रथा का उल्लेख सबसे पहलेे महाकाव्यों में हुआ है पर उस समय यह केवल कुछ राजपरिवारों तक ही सीमित था। (धर्मशास्त्र का इतिहास पृ.336)

अब मूल सवाल यह है की ये पर्दा प्रथा जैसी कुप्रथा हमारे भारतीय समाज में कैसे दाखिल हुई ? इसका जवाब हमें हुतात्मा पंडित लेखराम कृत “महर्षि दयानंद सरस्वती का जीवन चरित्र” नामक पुस्तक में बेहद तर्कपूर्ण आधार पर मिलता है, जहाँ महर्षि ने एक शंकालु की शंका समाधान करते हुए कहा :

“स्त्रियों को परदे में रखना आजन्म कारागार में डालना है। जब उनको विद्या होगी वह स्वयं अपनी विद्या के द्वारा बुद्धिमती होकर प्रत्येक प्रकार के दोषो से रहित और पवित्र रह सकती हैं। परदे में रहने से सतीत्व रक्षा नहीं कर सकती और बिना विद्या प्राप्ति के बुद्धिमती नहीं हो सकती हैं और परदे में रखने की प्रथा इस प्रकार प्रचलित हुई की जब इस देश के शासक मुस्लमान हुए तो उन्होंने शासन की शक्ति से जिस किसी की बहु बेटी को अच्छी रूपवती देखा उसको अपने शासनाधिकार से बलात छीन लिया और दासी बना लिया। उस समय हिन्दू विवश थे, इस कारण उनमे सामना करने की सामर्थ्य न थी। इसलिए अपने सम्मान की रक्षा के लिए उन्होंने अपनी स्त्रियों और बहु बेटियो को घर से बाहर जाने का निषेध कर दिया। सो मूर्खो ने उसको पूर्वजो का आचार समझ लिया। देखो, मेमो अर्थात अंग्रेज की स्त्रियों को, वे भारत की स्त्रियों की अपेक्षा कितनी साहसी, विद्यावती और सदाचारिणी होती हैं।”

ऋषि ने जो समझाया उसे न समझकर पूर्वाग्रह से ग्रसित हो आक्षेपकर्ता ने कुछ और ही समझा, स्त्रियों को परदे में रखना आजन्म कारागार है, क्योंकि ये महिला की इच्छा विरुद्ध है, अनेको मुस्लिम महिलाये ही बुरखा का विरोध करती हैं, यहाँ तक की अनेको मुस्लिम महिलाओ ने तो नग्न तक होकर विरोध किया है, ऐसी अनेको खबरों से फ्रांस, ब्रिटेन आदि देशो के समाचार पत्र भरे पड़े हैं। हम नग्न्ता का समर्थन तो बिलकुल नहीं करते, विरोध सदैव ही शालीन और मर्यादित होना चाहिए, लेकिन शायद उन मुस्लिम महिलाओ को नग्न्ता की राह दिखाने वाला भी बुरखा ही था जिसमे उन्हें घुटन महसूस हो रही थी। खैर हम ऋषि की दूसरी बात समझते हैं, उन्होंने कहा महिला कभी भी परदे से अपनी सतीत्व रक्षा नहीं कर सकती, ये कटु सत्य है, क्योंकि भारत में ही अनेको मुस्लिम परिवारो में मुस्लिम बहु की इज्जत को तार तार करने में उसके ही अपने मुस्लिम ससुर का योगदान था। मुजफ्फरनगर उ० प्र० में इमराना का केस मात्र एक उदहारण है, मुस्लिम पति नूर इलाही की जो पत्नी इमराना थी, उसके ससुर अली मोहम्मद ने बलात्कार किया था, तब इस्लामी कानून अनुसार दारुल उलूम देवबंद ने एक फतवा निकाला जो दुनिया से मानवता शर्मसार करने वाला था, इस कानून में पीड़ित महिला जो ससुर की हैवानियत का शिकार हुई थी, उसे उस हैवान की पत्नी बना दिया गया, और जो उसका पति था, जिससे उस महिला को पांच बच्चे थे, उसे बेटा बना दिया, अंततः पीड़ित ने भारतीय संविधान का दरवाजा खटखटाया और पीड़िता को इंसाफ मिला। अब सवाल ये है, क्या बुरखा यहाँ स्त्री की सतीत्व रक्षा कर पाया ? क्या ये जरुरी नहीं था, की पुरुष अपनी इन्द्रियों को वश में करना सीखे। महिलाओ को शिक्षित करने से ही महिलाओ का शोषण रुकेगा, क्योंकि महिलाओ को जो अधिकार प्राप्त हैं, वो शरिया कानून नहीं देता, क्योंकि इस्लाम में महिलाओ का पढ़ना लिखना हराम है, महिलाओ का नौकरी करना हराम है, महिलाओ का पर पुरुषो (ऑफिस सहकर्मी) के साथ बैठना, काम करना, सब हराम है। खैर इस विषय पर हम अगले लेख में विचार करेंगे। आप अभी केवल ये सोचिये की यदि महिला शिक्षित होकर नौकरी करना चाहे तो क्या वो ऑफिस में बुरखा पहने हुए, बैठ सकती है ? क्या ये एक प्रकार का मानसिक अत्याचार नहीं है ? क्या पुरुष को भी बुरखे में रहने की आज्ञा है ? यदि नहीं, तो क्यों एक नारी पर अत्याचार किया जाता है, वो भी मजहब के नाम पर ? फिर भी कहते हैं की महिला और पुरुष को इस्लाम में समान अधिकार प्राप्त हैं ? क्या ये एक प्रकार का बेहूदा मजाक नहीं ?

यही बात यहाँ महर्षि ने बताई, की महिला को शिक्षित होना चाहिए, ताकि वो अपने अधिकार प्राप्त कर सके, मगर खेद की इस्लाम में महिलाओ का पढ़ना लिखना, उनको अधिकार देना इस्लामी शरिया में हराम है, पाकिस्तान की मलाला युसूफ ज़ई से ज्यादा इस बात को कोई नहीं समझ सकता।

उपरोक्त तथ्यों से सिद्ध है की भारतीय सभ्यता में तो पर्दा का कोई रोल नहीं, ये कुप्रथा विशुद्ध रूप से मुस्लिम शासको के कारण ही भारतीय परिवेश में दाखिल हुई। ऋषि ने जो तर्क दिया था, उसका ही समर्थन करते हुए “भारतरत्न पांडुरंग वामन काणे” ने अपनी पुस्तक हिस्ट्री आफ धर्मशास्त्र (धर्मशास्त्र का इतिहास) में पृष्ठ ३३७ में लिखते हैं :

“उत्तरी भारत एवं पूर्वी भारत में पर्दा की प्रथा जो सर्वसाधारण में पाई जाती है, उसका आरंभ मुसलमानों के आगमन से हुआ।

इसके तीन कारण थे-

हिन्दू स्त्रियों को सुरक्षा प्रदान करने की दृष्टि से।

विजेता शासकों की शैली का चाहे-अनचाहे तरीके से अनुसरण।

विपरीत परिस्थितियों के कारण स्त्रियों में बढ़ती अशिक्षा और मुस्लिम शासकों के राज में गिरता स्तर।

इतिहास को आप छुपा नहीं सकते, इस विषय पर अनेको लेखको ने स्वतंत्रता से लिखते हुए अपनी सहमति दी है, क्योंकि मुस्लिम शासक और आक्रांता, इस देश में आक्रमण करते और पुरुषो को मारकर, उनकी स्त्रियों को उठा ले जाते तथा अरब आदि देशो में गुलाम दासी के तौर पर दो दो दिनार में बेच देते थे, ये तो इतिहास था, मगर इतिहास फिर दुहरा गया, सीरिया में इस्लामी आतंकी संगठन ने यजीदी महिलाओ को निर्वस्त्र करके गली मोहल्ले में बोली लगाकर १०० डॉलर में बेचा, ये तो अभी हाल की ही खबर है, बिलकुल यही परिस्थिति मुग़ल काल में भी थी राजपुताना में मौजूद अनेको जौहर स्थल इसके साक्षात प्रमाण हैं। इतिहास साक्षी है, की मुस्लिमो की बादशाहत दौरान हिन्दू महिलाओ को अगवा कर बलात्कार किया जाता था, डॉ श्रीवास्तव अपनी पुस्तक अकबर द मुग़ल पृष्ठ ६३ में लिखते हैं “when people Deosa and other places on Akbar’s route fled away on his approach” अब यहाँ शंका ये है यदि राजा भारमल की पुत्री जोधा का विवाह वधु पक्ष की मर्जी से हुआ था तो अकबर के आने पर जनता भाग क्यों गयी ? जाहिर है, वो विवाह था ही नहीं, ये स्पष्ट है की अकबर ने राजा भारमल की पुत्री की सुंदरता के प्रसिद्द किस्से सुने थे, इसीलिए उसे पाने को राजा भारमल पर आक्रमण किया, यही हाल सती रानी दुर्गावती की कहानी का भी है, हालांकि जौहर करने से दो महिलाये बच गयी थी एक दुर्गावती की बहन कमलावती और दूसरी राजा पुरंगद की बेटी थी जिन्हे अकबर के हरम में पंहुचा दिया गया था (जे एम शेलत, अकबर 1964)

अनेको इतिहासिक दस्तावेजो से ये सिद्ध है की उत्तर भारतीय हिन्दू परिवारो में पर्दा प्रथा मौजूद नहीं थी, ये कुप्रथा हिन्दू समाज में मुस्लिम आक्रंताओ से हिन्दू महिलाओ को बचाने के लिए अपनाया गया, नवाब वज़ीर लखनऊ का तत्कालीन नवाब सुन्दर हिन्दू महिलाओ को अगवा कर उनको प्रताड़ित किया करता था, और जबरन मुसलमान बनवाता था (इट इज कॉन्टिनुएड, अशोक पंत, पृष्ठ १३०)

औरंगजेब के समय तत्कालीन प्रधान मंत्री का नवासा मिर्ज़ा तवाख्खुर ने हिन्दुओ की दुकानो को नष्ट किया और हिन्दू महिलाओ को अगवा कर बलात्कार किया (India & South East Asia to 1800 सांडर्सन बेक)

औरंगजेब के समय तत्कालीन प्रधान मंत्री का नवासा मिर्ज़ा तवाख्खुर ने घनश्याम जो नवविाहित वधु को डोली में बैठा कर घर ला रहा था, उसे अपने घर के गेट के सामने ही लूट लिया, २ हिन्दू मार दिए गए और घनश्याम की पत्नी को मिर्ज़ा तवाख्खुर अपने घर ले गया (Ahkam-i-Alamgiri)

The Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali attacked India in 1757 AD and made his way to the holy Hindu city of Mathura, the Bethlehem of the Hindus and birthplace ofKrishna.

The atrocities that followed are recorded in the contemporary chronicle called : ‘Tarikh-I-Alamgiri’ :

“Abdali’s soldiers would be paid 5 Rupees (a sizeable amount at the time) for every enemy head brought in. Every horseman had loaded up all his horses with the plundered property, and atop of it rode the girl-captives and the slaves. The severed heads were tied up in rugs like bundles of grain and placed on the heads of the captives…Then the heads were stuck upon lances and taken to the gate of the chief minister for payment.

“It was an extraordinary display! Daily did this manner of slaughter and plundering proceed. And at night the shrieks of the women captives who were being raped, deafened the ears of the people…All those heads that had been cut off were built into pillars, and the captive men upon whose heads those bloody bundles had been brought in, were made to grind corn, and then their heads too were cut off. These things went on all the way to the city of Agra, nor was any part of the country spared.”

कितने ही प्रमाण दिए जा सकते हैं, जो सिद्ध करते हैं, की हिन्दू महिलाओ पर मुस्लिम आक्रंताओ द्वारा कितना अत्याचार किया गया, की इससे हमारी सभ्यता और संस्कृति में अनेको परिवर्तन आ गए। जिनमे मुख्य रूप से :

पर्दा कुप्रथा का भारतीय महिलाओ द्वारा अपनाना मुख्य है।
बाल विवाह, ताकि हिन्दू महिलाओ को शोषण से बचा सके।
सती प्रथा, ये जौहर का परिणाम था जिसे स्वेच्छा से अपनाया जाने लगा ताकि मृत हिन्दू पति के बाद हिन्दू महिला की आबरू बच सके।

इसके अतरिक्त सतीशचंद गुप्ता से पूछना चाहेंगे की, जो पर्दा प्रथा हालिया हिन्दू समाज में पायी जाती है, वह केवल घूंघट या सर पर पल्लू रख कर देखि जाती है, लेकिन जो पर्दा प्रथा का समर्थन आक्षेपकर्ता ने किया वो बुरखा है, वो किसी भी लिहाज से घूँघट का कार्य तो करता नहीं, फिर बुरखा की बराबरी घूँघट से करना मानसिक दिवालियापन ही है। क्योंकि हालिया समय में हिन्दू समाज में घूँघट या सर पर पल्लू रखना एक नजरिये से देखे तो आदर सूचक ही लगता है जो बड़े बुजुर्गो के सम्मान हेतु रखते हैं, लेकिन बुरखा घूँघट या पर्दा की बराबरी नहीं कर सकता, फिर क्यों बराबर जोड़ा गया ?

अब हम इस लेख में ज्यादा तो अब नहीं लिख सकते, क्योंकि बड़ा हो जाएगा, अतः अब हम अगले लेख में देखेंगे, कि :

बुरका प्रथा मुस्लिम समाज में कैसे आया ?

बुरखे की हानिया और आज का आतंकवाद

बुरखे से महिलाओ को होने वाली बीमारियां तथा बुरखे पर वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण

बुरखे के कारण मुस्लिम महिलाओ की स्थति

महिला विकास में अवरोधक बुरखा

और क्या बुरखा महिलाओ के प्रति छेड़ छाड़ और बलात्कार रोक पाता है ?

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OpEd: How Islam Creates Sociopaths: Nicolai Sennels

Psychopathic people and behavior are found within all cultures
and religions. But one tops them all — by many lengths

The daily mass killings, terror, persecutions and family executions committed by the followers of Islam are nauseating, and the ingenuity behind the attacks — always looking for new and more
effective ways of killing and terrorizing people — is astonishing: hijacking jumbo jets and flying them into skyscrapers, hunting unarmed and innocent people with grenades and automatic
rifles in shopping malls, planting bombs in one’s own body, using model airplanes as drones, attaching large rotating blades to pickup trucks and using them as human lawn movers, killing
family members with acid or fire, hanging
people publicly from cranes in front of cheering
crowds, etc.in addition to stabbing people in the back, shooting parents in front of their children, slitting throats of sleeping babies, etc. It makes one ask oneself: what creates such lack of empathy and almost playful and creative attitude towards murdering perceived enemies? This is a question for psychologists like me.

Studying the Muslim mind 

Nobody is born a mass murderer, a rapist or a violent criminal. So what is it in the Muslim culture that influences their children in a way that makes so relatively many Muslims harm other people?

As a psychologist in a Danish youth prison, I had a unique chance to study the mentality of Muslims. 70 percent of youth offenders in
Denmark have a Muslim background. I was able to compare them with nonMuslim  clients from the same age group with more or less
the same social background. I came to the conclusion that Islam and Muslim culture have certain psychological mechanisms that harm
people’s development and increase criminal behavior.
I am, of course, aware that Muslims are different, and not all Muslims follow the Quran’s violent and perverted message and their prophet’s equally embarrassing example. But as with all other religions, Islam also influences its followers and the culture they live in.
One could talk about two groups of psychological mechanisms that both singly and combined increase violent behavior. One group is mainly connected with religion, which aims at indoctrinating Islamic values in children as early as possible and with whatever means necessary, including violence and intimidation.
One can understand a Muslim parent’s concern about his offspring’s
religious choices, because the Sharia orders the death penalty for their  children should they pick another religion than their parents.
The other group of mechanisms are more cultural and psychological.
These cultural psychological mechanisms are a natural consequence of being influenced by a religion like Islam and stemming from a 1,400 year old tribal society with very limited freedom to develop beyond what the religion allows.
Classical Brainwashing Methods in the Upbringing
Brainwashing people into believing or doing things against their own
human nature — such as hating or even killing innocents they do not even know — is traditionally done by combining two things: pain and repetition.
The conscious infliction of psychological and physical suffering breaks down the person’s resistance to the constantly repeated message.
Totalitarian regimes use this method to reform political dissidents. Armies in less civilized countries use it to create ruthless soldiers, and religious sects all over the world use it to fanaticize their followers.
During numerous sessions with more than a hundred Muslim clients, I found that violence and repetition of religious messages are prevalent in Muslim families.
Muslim culture simply does not have the same degree of understanding of human development as in civilized societies, and physical pain and threats are therefore often the preferred tool to raise children. This is why so many Muslim girls grow up to accept violence in their marriages, and why Muslim boys grow up to learn that violence is acceptable. And it is the main reason why nine out of ten children removed from their parents by authorities in Copenhagen are from immigrant families. The Muslim
tradition of using pain and intimidation as part of disciplining children is also widely used in Muslim schools — also in the West.
Combined with countless repetitions of Quranic verses in Islamic schools and families, all this makes it very difficult for children to defend themselves against being indoctrinated to follow the Quran, even if it is against secular laws, logic, and the most basic understanding of compassion.
And as we know from so many psychological studies, whatever a child is strongly influenced by at that age takes an enormous personal effort to change later in life. It is no wonder that Muslims in general, in spite of Islam’s inhumane nature and obvious inability to equip its followers with humor, compassion and other attractive qualities, are stronger in their faith than any other religious group.

Four Enabling Psychological Factors

Not only does a traditional Islamic upbringing resemble classical brainwashing methods, but also, the culture it generates cultivates four psychological characteristics that further enable and increase violent

behavior.
These four mental factors are
● anger
● lack of selfconfidence
● no sense of responsibility for oneself
● intolerance
When it comes to anger, Western societies widely agree that it is a sign of weakness. Uncontrolled explosions of this unpleasant feeling are maybe the fastest way of losing face, especially in Northern countries, and though angry people may be feared, they are never respected. In Muslim culture, anger is much more accepted, and being able to intimidate people is seen as strength and source of social status. We even see ethnic Muslim groups or countries proudly declare whole days of anger, and use expressions such as “holy anger” — a term that seems contradictory in peaceful cultures.
In Western societies, the ability to handle criticism constructively if it is justified, and with a shrug if it is misguided, is seen as an expression of self confidence and authenticity.
As everyone has noticed, this is not the case among Muslims. Here
criticism, no matter how true, is seen as an attack on one’s honor, and it is expected that the honor is restored by using whatever means necessary to silence the opponent. Muslims almost never attempt to counter criticism with logical arguments; instead, they try to silence the criticism by pretending to be offended or by name calling, or by threatening or even killing the messenger.

The third psychological factor concerns responsibility for oneself, and here the psychological phenomenon “locus of control” plays a major role. People raised by Western standards generally have an inner locus of control, meaning that they experience their lives as governed by inner factors, such as one’s own choices, world view, ways of handling and situations, etc. Muslims are raised to experience their lives as being controlled from the outside.

Everything happens “insha’ Allah” — if Allah wills — and the many
religious laws, traditions and powerful male authorities leave little room for individual responsibility. This is the cause for the embarrassing and world famous Muslim victim mentality, where everybody else is blamed and to be punished for the Muslims’ own self created situation.

Finally, the fourth psychological factor making Muslims vulnerable to the violent message in the Quran concerns tolerance. While Western societies in general define a good person as being open and tolerant, Muslims are told that they are superior to non Muslims,
destined to dominate non Muslims, and that they must distance themselves socially and emotionally from non Muslims.
The many hateful and dehumanizing verses in the Quran and the Hadiths against non Muslims closely resemble the psychological propaganda that leaders use against their own people in order to prepare them mentally for fighting and killing the
enemy. Killing another person is easier if you hate him and do not
perceive him as fully human.

Why Islam Creates Monsters
The cultural and psychological cocktail of anger, low self esteem,
victim mentality, a willingness to be blindly guided by outer authorities, and an aggressive and discriminatory view toward non Muslims, forced upon Muslims through pain, intimidation and mind numbing repetitions of the Quran’s almost countless verses promoting hate and violence against nonMuslims,
is the reason why Islam creates monsters.

The Psychological Problem within Islam
The problem with Islam and Muslim culture is that there are so many psychological factors pushing its followers towards a violent attitude against nonMuslims that a general violent clash is — at least from a perspective — inevitable. With such strong pressure and
such strong emotions within such a large group of people — all pitched against us — we are facing the perfect storm, and I see no possibilities of turning it around. For people to change, they have to want it, to be allowed to change, and to be able to change — and only a tiny minority of Muslims have such lucky conditions.

Far too many people underestimate the power of psychology embedded in religion and culture. As we have already seen, no army of social workers, generous welfare states, sweet talking
politicians, politically correct journalists or democracy promoting
soldiers can stop these enormous forces. Sensible laws on immigration and Islamization in our own countries can limit the amount of suffering, but based on my education and professional experience as a psychologist for Muslims, I estimate that we
will not be able to deflect or avoid this many sided,
aggressive movement against our culture.

I do believe that we, as a democratic and educated society can become focused and organized concerning the preservation of our values and constitutions, can win this ongoing conflict started by the often inbred followers of Sharia. The big question is how much of our dignity, our civil rights, and our blood, money and tears will we lose in the process.

This article is taken from the below link

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17646#.VhNx-PmqpBc

We Now Have Concrete Proof for Love Jihad By Balbir Punj

After several instances of young Muslim boys enticing Hindu and Christian girls in Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra and several other parts of the country with the show of wealth and promises of marriage and then, ferrying them to Kashmir and other places, converting them and recruiting them forcibly into Islamist Jihad came to light, concerns at this Love Jihad were raised. But, our so-called secularist lobby started dismissing these concerns as myths and communal propaganda. What happened last week when the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deported to India a Hyderabad resident lady on charges of secretly working as a recruiting agent for the ISIS through a concealed identity has blasted the secularists’ apology on the charges of Love Jihad. On her arrival from Abu Dhabi, the National Investigation Agency took her into custody and is unravelling her past life as a recruiter for the barbaric killers in the name of religion that the Syria-Iraq based militant movement has turned out to be.

The story of Afsha Jabeen from Hyderabad turns out to be a mix of 26/11 recee agent of Pakistan’s state-supported militant organisation of Hafiz Sayeed and the several Love Jihad Islamist teenagers who were engaged by jihadi organisations for recruiting unsuspecting girls from non-Muslim communities to the Islamist cause. David Headley, who toured India collecting details for staging the 26/11 massacre in Mumbai, claiming to be a Christian and a businessman, was actually a Muslim. He assumed a Christian name to mask his identity and gain unsuspecting access in India. Pakistan’s ISI and Hafiz Sayeed’s JuD were his real handlers. As we know now, he was unmasked while in the US and is currently in jail. American authorities have agreed to share with India much of the details they have gathered after his arrest. In the US itself, he was probably a double agent pretending to work for the anti-terrorism agency but actually was working all the time for the Islamist cause in Pakistan.

The plot in the case of the Hyderabad lady is the same but it is the woman who now assumes a Christian name to hide her real identity and carry on recruitment for the ISIS by luring unsuspecting young men to marry her. It has now come to light that she also pretended to be a British resident settled in the UAE so she could carry greater conviction and persuade her intended victims that they stand to gain by getting to move to the UAE. Her virtual life on Facebook and other social media was so effectively secretive, even her husband — a Hindu working in Abu Dhabi, himself a victim of her charm and had converted to Islam to marry her — was not aware of her secretive work carried on the social media by pretending to be a Christian.

She assumed many Christian names, mainly Nicole Joseph, to make her victims believe that they were getting into a relationship with a British national  and therefore, have a chance of landing up in the UK. The intended victim, knowing her only on the social media, would be wheedled into the ISIS camp through her machinations. After an electronic engineer, a Muslim himself, was lured by her and was persuaded to come to Syria, his attempts to get a visa to that country got the IB to zero in on her.

“She used her false identity to attract non-Muslims to take up Islam like her,” the IB has been quoted in the report about her arrest as soon as she landed in Hyderabad following her extradition from the UAE. The IB was following the lead obtained from the Hyderabad engineer, who was seeking to go to Syria, for the last six months to provide enough documentation of her being an ISIS agent and compel the UAE police to extradite her. The treaty that India has with the UAE  makes it mandatory to send back to India suspected criminal elements from here seeking refuge in the UAE from the law here. Too clever by half, she had withdrawn from her virtual life once her intended victim boasted about his intention to go to Syria and thus, drew attention to such clandestine activities through the Facebook.

The IB could trace her work back to 2008 when she launched a Facebook group called “Islam vs Christianity”, the title being innocent in itself till the intelligence agencies dug up and found much dirt. “Even her husband, Devender Kumar Batra, himself a convert to Islam, was not aware of her virtual life as a recruiting agent…,” the IB is quoted as saying in newspaper reports.

Now the IB is watching several people in J&K, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and other places who were her recruits for various jobs as ISIS agents. How far the penetration of this dangerous Islamist organisation has gone will be known only when this lady is investigated fully. It should be noted that the Hyderabad electronic engineer Salman Mohiuddin, who got lured by Jabeen, was under the impression that she was a Christian and a British national and was ready to marry him.

How from such gullibility the victims are led on the path to either adopt Islam or if already Muslims, to join the ISIS or other Jihadi outfits, needs to be studied for developing adequate immunity socially against such viruses. The success of ISIS, despite its horrifying mass killings and individual beheadings and throat slittings, is also a warning for civilised societies against complacency of any sort.

From this event, it is quite evident that for our own safety we cannot take lightly the reports that several young people here are getting lured by religious ideology, hopes of landing up big deals abroad, marriages with persons of Islamic faith to gain access to the oil riches of the Gulf or other attractions.

Love Jihad could be a plot that could be played by not only teenage Muslim boys displaying high lifestyles to attract gullible girls from other communities, it could also be Muslim girls with concealed identity as non-Muslims but cleverly trapping unsuspecting men into Islamist ideology. This is more so, when we see European nations, especially the UK, Germany and France are finding plots after plots being hatched by Islamists in their territory. The frontrunners in these plots are late converts from the dominant Christian community in Europe who fall for the Islamist ideology. That in the UK one such convert beheaded a British soldier some months back in a public place in broad daylight is a sharp reminder of how far this ideology could go in making beasts out of human beings.

 

The author is a Delhi-based commentator on political and social issues.

E-mail: punjbalbir@gmail.com

 

This article is taken from :

http://www.newindianexpress.com/columns/We-Now-Have-Concrete-Proof-for-Love-Jihad/2015/09/21/article3039038.ece

Pakistanis are basically Hindus, Pakistani lady scholar admits

A brave Pakistani lady scholar boldly states what many Indians won’t.

In a landmark confession of truth, an enlightened Muslim intellectual, Fauzia Syed, declared during a discussion on a television channel that all Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims are essentially Hindus, and that in rare cases, they might be Buddhists.

The lady activist lamented that a lot of Muslims, mainly Pakistani and Bangladeshi, have a hard time accepting the fact that their ancestors were Hindus who were converted by force of sword to Islam. The gutsy lady said this in a live television show while responding to the argument of radical Pakistani Muslim preacher Zaid Hamid.

Syed’s bold assertion of the truth is a clarion call to Hindus to wake up from slumber and re-educate and enlighten the Muslims of the sub-continent about their ancestry and massacres of their forefathers. Unfortunately till now, no Hindu has responded to her wakeup call.

Explaining her viewpoint lucidly, Fauzia said that most Pakistani Muslims believe they are the offspring of the Muslim invaders who came attacking the sub-continent from Muslim lands. But this is an unalloyed falsehood. Any person having a hint of common sense would know that the ancestors of more than 99 percent Pakistanis were Hindus. Unfortunately, Pakistan does not want to admit the bitter truth, nor are the Pakistanis prepared to hear it, she averred.

One simply marvels at the extensively propagated falsehood that Pakistani Muslims are progeny of Arab or Turk invaders. Equally dumb is the assertion that the forefathers of today’s Muslims in Pakistan and India were converted by Sufi saints. Anyone who reads the history of the sub-continent objectively would know that lakhs of Hindus were killed and forcibly converted by Muslim invaders on pain of death. The deep blood relationship between the Muslims and Hindus of the sub-continent is further reinforced by the fact that many surnames like Cheema, Bajwa, Ghakhar, Sethi and also Sehgal (or Saigols) are common to both communities.

Among other things, Fauzia pointed out that it is not wrong to call Pakistan a terrorist state because it has been sheltering terrorists for a long time. The truth was exposed when Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by American
commandos.

It is indeed a sign of the dumbness of Hindu society that this bold Pakistani human rights activist has not been invited to speak in India and interact with the intellectuals, media analysts and common citizens about her incontrovertible true statement on a Pakistani television channel. In any case, the matter deserves the focused attention of the Hindu intelligentsia.

It is not late even now to invite Fauzia Syed to India for a meaningful ‘samvad’ at the India International Centre, New Delhi and then to make her address the Indians in various parts of the country. The opportunity should not be missed and Fauzia Syed must be invited to India for sharing her views with Hindus and Muslims of India. The failure of Hindu society in ignoring the bold and truthful assertion by Fauzia Syed confirms that we continue to be somnolent.

An honest reappraisal of the common heritage of India and Pakistan will totally support Fauzia Syed’s assertion. For centuries, geographically as well as politically, Bharat, i.e., India, included the entire landmass from Bactria (known as Vaahlik Pradesh), the entire Afghanistan, the present day Pakistan, today’s Bharat (i.e., India) and the whole of Bangladesh.

The indescribable savagery of the Muslim invaders unleashed against Hindus of the sub-continent was highlighted by the well known historian, Will Durant, in his book, The Story of Civilization, in the following words:

“The Mohammadan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.”

Thus, the bold assertion of Fauzia Syed that the Hindus of Pakistan, nay of the entire sub-continent, were forcibly converted to Islam by sword is absolutely correct. It is time that the gory narrative of the slaughter of Hindu forbears of today’s Pakistani Muslims is brought out of closet and debated publicly by inviting the braveheart Pakistani lady scholar to India.

article is taken from the link below:

http://indiatomorrow.co/nation/3892-pakistanis-are-basically-hindus-pakistani-lady-scholar-admits

Leaving Islam…..Aditya Nandiwardhana

‘No matter how many good things you have done before you kick the bucket, if you are not a Muslim, then bad news for you. Even back then, I had a problem accepting that part of the religious teaching’

“In the afterlife, only Muslims get to enter paradise.”

That was what my Quran tutor told me when I was in fourth grade. The moment she told me that, I was really, really, surprised.

I was raised as a Muslim, and like any other Muslim kid in Indonesia, I had to learn how to recite the Quran. My father hired a Quran tutor for me and I spent a couple of hours 3 days a week with her. I did not only learn how to recite the Quran from her, I also learned about Islam in general, about what Islam (well, at least her version of Islam) teaches us.

One of the things that I learned from her was that entering paradise is a Muslim privilege. No matter how many good things you have done before you kick the bucket, if you are not a Muslim, then bad news for you.

Even back then, I had a problem accepting that part of the religious teaching.

Here is the thing, I was born into the Muslim tradition because my father is a Muslim man. However, that was not the only tradition that I was born into.

My mother is a Catholic woman, a devout one in my opinion. When I was very little, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents from my mother’s side. They had to babysit me a lot because both my parents were working back then.

They had a lot of Catholic ornaments in their house – crucifixes on the walls, a statue of Virgin Mary, pictures of various saints, and many others. They would tell me stories about Jesus when they were babysitting me and I liked those stories.

When I was not being babysat by them, my father usually told me to perform shalat prayers with him. I did not know how to actually perform the prayers, of course, but I would just follow the movements from him.

That was my early childhood. I was always aware of the fact that my parents had different religious backgrounds. I did not have any problem accepting that fact – it all just made sense to me. I also knew that there were other people with other religious beliefs out there and thought that all of those different beliefs were as valid as mine. I had already identified as a Muslim at the time. If anyone asked me what my religion was, I would answer: Islam.

I never thought that my religion was superior to others, though. Until my Quran tutor taught me otherwise.

Becoming agnostic

I guess that was the starting point of the journey that led me to become an agnostic-atheist.

I had a problem accepting the doctrine of the superiority of Islam over other religious beliefs, that only Muslims can enter paradise after the apocalypse. I loved my grandparents and I thought that it was not fair that they were going to hell just because they believed in God in a different way than I did. As I grew up, I started having other questions regarding other aspects of Islam such as the role of women in the traditional views of Islam and LGBT rights, but I was also afraid to question those views further because I did not want to go to hell for doubting my faith.

It wasn’t until my second year of university that I finally stopped practicing Islam. I stopped performing shalat, I stopped going to the masjid (mosque) every Friday, and I stopped performing shawm (fasting) during Ramadan. I did not identify as a Muslim anymore. I was not an atheist yet at the time. I was kind of a deist, still believing in a “higher power” of some sort. But I had finally become a murtadin (apostate).

I was not open about my epiphany to my parents. I lived in a kost (a boarding house for university students) in Yogyakarta when I first stopped identifying as a Muslim, while my parents lived in Jakarta, so that made it easier for me. But every time I went back to my parents’ house in Jakarta, I would pretend that I was still a Muslim.

I would try to get out of the house every time it was near prayer time, because I did not want to pray with my father. Of course I could not always get out of the house during prayer time, so I had to pretend to pray with my father during those occasions.

“The main crisis that humanity faces now is not religion, as many atheists would suggest. it is the oppressive power structures that oppress lgbt people, religious minorities (including but not limited to atheists), women, the working class and other oppressed groups.”

Ramadan was the hardest challenge for me. I had to pretend that I was fasting and think of how to sneak food into my room without getting caught. Every time I went back to Jakarta during university break, I could not wait to go home to my kost in Yogyakarta.

Exploring Buddhism

I began to have curiosity about Buddhism during my first years of apostasy. I read a lot about Buddhism and also went to the local Buddhist temple near my kost to learn more about it. I used to meditate regularly, and I am still trying to now.

This artilcle was taken from the following web portal

 

http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/indonesia/bahasa/englishedition/106964-atheist-islam